its a play on masquerades, where most male wear full masks, and female masks mostly just cover the eyes, sometimes the nose.

It's a Vatican inspired.

Perfect example of why "community" forums are poisonous to the health of a development team. These developers are wasting hundreds of hours trying to stem the tide of incessant bitchery that would never, ever abate so long as these entitled, unfortunate human beings don't get their way.

"Posting impassionately, they say you don't care. Posting nothing, they say you ignore. Posting with passion, you incite trolls. Posting fluff, you say nonsense. Post with what facts you have, they whittle down with rationale.
There is no win, there is only slow degradation." Tseric and the truth about WoW community.